17-1 and 17-2

After the Civil War the economy of the South was badly damaged and many banks and merchants went bankrupt.

• True

• False

Lincoln's main vision for Reconstruction was to ​ (a)   the nation as ​ (b)   as possible.

• reunite
• quickly and painlessly
• divide
• slowly

Match the following

• Freedmen's Bureau

• northern-born Republican office-holders who had moved to the South

• carpetbaggers

• Congress refused to readmit southern states into the Union in 1865 because the representatives of the new governments had been....

• leaders of the Confederacy

• an agency that gave relieft for freedpeopleand some poor southerners

To begin the process of ​ (a)   , President Johnson first appointed a ​ (b)   for each ​ (c)   .

• Reconstruction
• temporary governor
• state
• permanent governor
• county
• Repentance

first African American U.S. Senator

• Hiram Revels

• Sojourner Truth

• Langston Hughes

• Frederick Douglass

Why was the Ku Klux Klan able to obtain a great deal of power in the South before 1870?

• Local governments did little to stop the group's violence

• The Klan provided jobs for people who agreed with them

• The Klan received public support from Congress

• Local governments had no legal right to prohibit the group's activities.

Match the following

• Compromise of 1877

• agreement in which the Democrats accepted Republican Rutherford B. Hayes as president in exchange for the removal of federal troops from the South

• Jim Crow laws

• Thaddeus Stevens was a leader of this group that wanted the gederal government to be more involved in justice for African Americans

• Ten Percent Plan

• Lincoln's plan for readmitting southern states to the Union

• Radical Republicans

• enforced segregation, or separation of whites from African Americans in public places

At the urging of Radical Republicans, Congress passed a new bill that would

• limit African Americans' rights

• abolish the Black Codes

• give the Freedmen's Bureau more power

• pardon those who committed crimes against African Americans

Match the following

• 14th Amendment

• abolished slavery

• 15th Amendment

• granted citizenship to African Americans

• 13th Amendment

• gave African American men the right to vote

Match the following

• black codes

• laws passed in the south to enforce segregation

• Civil Rights Act of 1866

• laws passed in the south to make life difficult for African Americans, included poll taxes and literacy tests for African Americans attempting to vote

• Plessy v Ferguson

• laws passed by Congress that said all people born in the US would have full rights

• Jim Crow laws

• case that decided that segregation was not unconstitutional